Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1918 — Page 4

ISSUE BEAUTIFUL PROGRAMME

The trustees of Hanging Grove, Milroy and Jordan township deserve much praise for the beautiful programs they have gotten out for the graduates of their townships. Possibly other trustees of the county have done 'likewise and they should also be commended. The boys and girls who will by eight years of faithful study attain scholarship sufficient to be graduated from the common school is worthy of this recognition.

ONLY A DOG.

J. P. Simons, of the Monticello Democrat, is mad, and justifiably so. He owns a fine dog that was as smart as any human being, knew every person in town and was loved by everyone—except an unknown cur—who poisoned the dog. Editor Simons this week has the following notice offering a reward for the -guilty person: “Mike is dead. Mike was only a dog, but in many ways seemingly possessed almost human intelligence, and always displayed more than human appreciation of kindness. “He was only a dog, but he was a thoroughbred, quick to resent an insult or to respond to an overture, and with all of a thoroughbred’s aversion to cats and snakes. “He was only a dog, and in the estimation of those who fix worth by market quotations he was not worth a sou; but I will give ten dollars for information leading to the identification of the cowardly, yellowstreaked cur who caused his untimely death.”

WAR MOTHERS.

The Jasper County Council of War Mother’s will hold their county meeting in the Presbyterian church Saturday afternoon, June 29th, at-2:00 o’clock.

INDIANA CASUALTY LIST.

Bugler Jesse H. Moore, Montezuma, killed in action. Private James M. Griffith, 1254 Calhoun street, Indianapolis. Severely Wounded. Private Harry E. Anderson, Walkerton. Marines. Private Willard H. Hensley, Morristown, killed in action.

THURSDAY LOCAL MARKET.

Oats 71c. ' Corn SI.OO. Wheat $2.00. Rye $1.25. Butterfat 45c. Eggs 30c. Spring fries 35c and 40c. Hens 22c. Old roosters 15b. Young ducks 25c. Old ducks 17c.

Elizabeth King returned from Monticello today. S. Melvin Haas went to Gary to- ' day. B. ,N. Fendig wens .to Chicago today on business. Dr. F. A. Turfler is spending the day in Chicago. Miss Glenn Day and Marguerite Quinn are spending the day in Chicago. Gravalous Hansson went to Toledo, Ohio today and will drive an Overland back. Mrs. Chas. Spain and children returned to their home at Wabash today. Mrs. Chas. Kessinger returned today from a three weeks’ visit at Westfield. The girls of the Red Cross Auxiliary will meet with Miss Harriet Shedd Friday afternoon.

Miss Zona Dillon, of Fountain City, came today to attend the Jordan township commencement. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Williams motored from Reynolds Wednesday to spend the day with Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Beam and son, Don. Misses Angelia Kolhoff and Maurine Tuteur are entertaining the Hiking club to a picnic supper at the Kolhoff home. Mrs. R. C. Beeler went to Bloomington, Hl. today to visit Dr. Beeler’s parents. Dr. Beeler is now in France with Lily Base Hospital Unit. Mrs. Eli Zehr and son, who had their tonsils removed at the hospital here Wednesday, were able to return to their home in Carpenter township today. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Huff, who were formerly residents of this city,' but who have been living in Indianapolis for some time, passed through Rensselaer today enroute from Indianapolis to Hammond, at which place they will now reside. 'i Wealth isn’t everything in this world. A princess with a dime in her purse and a diamond ring from the ten cent store on her finger imagines that the poor females who are riding around in their limousines are envying her good fortune. Solomon must have been a wonderful old tad. There were no card index systems in those days and it must have been some job to remember Aaba from Zuba. At that we’ll bet he had to bell each of the 500 wives that she was the only girl he ever loved, and that the other 499 were only haswases. The saddest words that pen has writ are: “This is urgent. Please remit"

THE TRUE STORY OF KITTY CURLY

Teddy had a pretty malteee called MUmma Grey-cat. One day he could not find her. He ran all over the heuae calling "D*r, Kitty,” but she did not oome. Then he went out to the playhouse in the backyard. Some one had dug a hole underneath, and out walked Mamma Grey-cat with a baby kitten in her mouth. She ran back into the hole again, and brought out another. One baby was veey homely, with blade spots and yellow eyes. Teddy called her “Spotty." The other was white, with blue eyes and grey markings. She had a cute little curt la the fur between her ears. "I am going to caM you Kitty Gariy,” cried Toddy, and be ran with her into the house. Teddy showed the pretty kitten to mine. “Vamma Grey-cat has another one, co I’m going to keep thio one for my own,” he said. After that Kitty Guriy stayed in the bouse, while Spotty and Manama flanojr ent had to live in the barn. Kitty Curly was very vain. Around her neck she wore a btae ribbon that just matched her eyes. Every time she passed a mirror she stopped to see whether the bow was straight, and whether the little curl between her ears was still there. Then she would wash her paws and think, "What a pretty pussy cat I am.” One day nurse found Kitty Curly' hanging by her blue ribbon from a peg of the bat-rack. Teddy was just going out of the front door. “Oh, you naughty boy!” scolded nurse. “You almost choked poor Kitty Curly. “I didn’t mean to,’’ cried Teddy. "i only wanted to know where to find her when I got back.’’ And he kissed Kitty Curly and gave her a saucer of cream. Her throat felt very sore where the ribbon pinched it, so she rax out to tell Spotty all about it. “Dear me, Spotty," she said, “I hope it hasn't mussed my fur. There <a gome freeh shiny asphalt on the street that will make a splendid mirror. lam going to look in it.” “Look out,” said Spotty, “or you wIU stick in that asphalt It isn’t day yet” “I guess I can take care of myself,” said Curly proudly. “You can’t tett me anything. You are only a barn cat.” Kitty Curly couldn’t see very well kt the asphalt after all. She kept leaning farther and farther over, till her whickers caught In the fresh tar, and there she stuck! When Teddy’s papa came home, he found her. He cut off her whiskers, sod then shaved the fur off her forehead, curl and all, for there were little specks of tar all over her face. “You had better get a wig lor Kitty Curly now,” laughed papa. And Kitty Curly hid behind the stove and thought, "I will never look in a mirror again as long as I Rvn."

Why Do They Call Them Lead Pencils .

The lead pencil so generally used today ie not, a» ita name would imply, made from lead but from gpaphite. It derives fta name from the fact that prior to the time when pencils were made from graphite, metallic lead was employed for the pmpoee. Graphite was first used in pencils after the discovery in 1965 of the famous Cumberland mine in England. This graphite was of remarkable purity and could be used without farther treatment by cutting it into thin slabs and encasing them in wood. For two hundred yean England enjoyed alone the profits of the pen-cil-making Industry. In the eighteenth Century, hcarever, says the Scientific American, the lead pencil Industry had found its way into Germany. Today a lasgepart of the pencil-making trade is centered in toe United States. American manufacturers supply nineienths of the pencils needed at home and have entered largely into the competition of the world’s markets. The principal raw materials that enter into the making of a lead penal! are graphite, day, cedar and rubber. The graphite as it comes from the mines is brotoen into small pieces, toe impure particles being separated by hand. It is then finely divided in large ptoverisers and placed in tubs of water, so that the lighter particles of graphite float off from the heavier particles of topurities.

Leaden Years.

Henrys wife is muafssL Occasional ly she drags Henry wMh|ber to a concert. The other night to was to hear a famous Bussinn quatonf, When the program was about hair finished she whispered: •Henry, you must admit' it la wonderful. Why, those meju have been playing together for eight years.’’ ▲ look of fncroduMfrl rsHeved the oarvodin atone mpn nffnn on Henry's face. “Bhffbt yeanr ha agpaated. "tieaafr we’ve been hem lougerfaan thsM*

A Sharp Cost.

Uttta Lester can* ■umtag to Ms mother one day with notedly sutaeh ed bend. As mother was admtafetertag beefr lag end sympathy she staked. Itarie, bow did you ‘hart your hand eo badly?* -Why, mother,- recited \tbe HMta Mtow, -I eta K ea tfajrita"

THE REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER. IND.

Mecca’s pilgrims annually exceed 100,000. Americans now chew $60,000,000 Worth < f gum a year. Rubber was first introduced into Europe in 1735 as erasers. Russia has more blind people than the rest of the world, two to one. Until 1874 tne Japanese used to vaccinate on the tip of the nose. There are 672 volcanoes in the world, of which 270 are rescribed aa active. Working women in Pennsylvania’s Industries are paid almost 175.000,000 a year. _ Anthracite coal mines in this country have more than 7,000 miles of tunnels. . There are 2 "\315 girl stenographers and typewriters employed in this country. Curfew comes from two French words, “Couvre feu,” which means "cover fire.” Oil fuel is used to some extent on no fewer than forty railroads in the United States. - ? The average wage of plumbers throughout the country is $5.00 for an eight-hour day. It is reported that a large number of Russians are about to colonize in South America.

There have been women sailors among the Finns and Norweigians for many years. A mounting of recent invention permits a single lens camera to take a stereoscopic picture. Turkeys derived their name from the fact that they were imported first into Europe through Turkey. An Egyptian nobleman’s tomb built 4,500 years ago, has been placed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. __________ ♦ South African mines are experimenting with a dustlaying preparation which has molasses as its base. South Africa has established a factory for the extraction of rubber from the roots and vines or rubber plants. Los Angeles city is rich, holding In the treasury, money, bonds and securities of a total value of $20,614,155. Thea *foyo Risen Kaisha has promised a new service of steamships between the Los Angeles harbor and South America. Nearly 100 tons of sardines are being shipped daily to a Long Beach (Cal.) fertilizing plant, where they/ sell for $lO a ton. The government of India will extend its wireless system until every army post has a station in the charge of a trained officer. The Civic League, of Columbia, S. C., Is conducting a vigorous campaign to rid the city of unsightly billboards and tradesmen’s signs. ( , ■ Only forty years ago the Japanese went to battle clad from head to foot in armor, and wearing hideous masks to frighten the enemy. Argentina and Paraguay have concluded a new commercial treaty which provides for practically free trade between the two countries.

Mounted In a torpedo-shaped shell, special generators are now being constructed for wireless telephone apparatus carried on air craft. The people of San Bernardino are proposing to go halves with the state of California in maintaining the great highway known aa the "101-mlle rim of the world.A superior finish is now given to concrete roadways by means of a belt drawn back and forth over the wet mass. The result is far better than handwork. Mistaking a fire alarm box for a mall receptacle, Pete Tadinitian got a good share of the New York fire department out at dinner to mail a card to a friend. An electric knife for tailors has been Invented that cats only a tew thicknesses of cloth instead of the twenty or more cut by machines used in clothing factories. A Montana forestry official has vised a light and compact telephone instrument which Is portable and will be part of the equipment of alt government rangers in the future. If multiplied br two, three, four or any other interger less than nine, the num’ -r 1,176,47M85.235,294 will produce the sama dibits in the same order, singly beginning at a different place In the set. / To aid in playing the banjo 4 or guitar . device has been invented to be slipped over the head of an instrument, > sired chords being produced when buttons are present to mute the I strings correctly. ■_

OFFICIAL FOOD NEWS

By Dr. Harry E. Barnard.

Food Administrator for Indiana.

More than forty Indianapolis bakers, confectioners and restaurant keepers have been cited'to appear before the federal food administrator during the past week for failure to make correct reports and for not conforming to the regulations as to the use of substitutes. Various excuses were offered and all were released on parole, on their promises to reform. Warnings were issued that further violations meanT suspension of federal licenses in all cases. Licenses of Nickolas Prescan and N. K. Manolea, Indianapolis bakers, were revoked for their failure to make proper reports and not using the required substitutes on bread and rolls. Wm. Greisinger, a South Bend confectioner, was found to have made a false affidavit as to having purchased sugar on contract and as a result AE. Eby, St. Joseph county food administrator, was directed by Dr. Harry E. Barnard, federal food administrator for Indiana, to take charge of his business and not permit him to handle it until July 15. The sugar secured through misrepresentation was seized. Roast beef at noon Monday; stewed or boiled beef or beef hash at noon Wednesday; beef steak or hamburger steak at noon Thursday; stewed beef, boiled beef or beef hash at noon Saturday; with by-products such aa ox-tails, livers, tongues, sweetbreads, hearts, kidneys, brains and tripe at any time, is Hoover’s suggestion of a meat menu in order that beef consumption be limited to 1% pounds per person per week. Hotels and public eating houses have been directed by the food administration in Indiana to fix some such arrangement and then refrain from advertising the service in order not to induce an excess consumption on the days when beef is served. . <

To be wholly patriotic a Fourth of July celebration must not include iced tea or lemonade, nor candy in which sugar is used in excess of the three pounds per person per month ration. The sugar syruped Sundae at soda fountains is prohibited in Indiana and county food administrators have been so notified. Afll special and fancy concoctions in which sugar syrups are used also are under the ban. Sales of sugar have been limited to two pounds for city customers and five pounds for rural customers, with a maximum limit of 25 pounds for canning and preserving purposes. Purchase of sugar for the latter purposes must be on a sworn affidavit. Manufacturers of non - essentials Such as candy, chewing gum, etc., are no longer permitted to buy sugar in anticipation of their allotment for the three months following July 1. No sugar sales are legal in Indiana except upon certificates and thep proportioned as per the recently promulgated regulations. No relaxation in the conservation rules that have enabled the United States to feed Europe out of a short harvest, will be possible if a surplus is to be built up against the chance cf crop shortage next year or in 1920, says Herbert Hoover. The American people who have shown that they can save, must conserve still further if the benefits already secured are to be permanent.

FOOD RESERVES AND FIRE HAZARDS.

The food administration issues the following statement of fire hazards in rural districts and the importance st safeguarding the nation’s food sup plies against this danger: The season is at hand when farmers are to fII their barns with hay and grain. This period when barns, granaries and storehouses contain the greatest amount of food supplies Is also the time when they are most liable to fire destruction. Farmers are the only large handlers of food supplies upon whom the government depends, entirely without supervision by inspectors, to guard their holdings against losses by fire; and in view of the supreme importance of guarding this season’s stored crops, farmers are asked to consider destruction or .spoilage of food through fire as a misfortune to the Nation and the allies as well as a perSonal loss to the holder. Prominent among the many sources of fire in rural districts are" lightning, defective flues and stoves, spontaneous combustion, carelessness with matches, incendiarism and sparks from chimneys and locomotives. Effective means of fire prevention and control are understood by the majority of property owners, but particular attention is called to the importance of removing Inflammable trash from the vicinity of buildings and to adequate equipment in ladders and buckets when more modern equipment for extinguishing fires Is lacking. Properly installed systems of lightning rods and conductors are suggested as protections against lightning. The paramount thought Is to save from loss not only farm buildings, but the food and feed they contain. \

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n is an in cultivation; good corn land. Lies on pike road and dredge ditch in Barkley townshp. Sold on easy terms at $75. I 40 acres. Lies on public road and is in pasture. Owner will sell at the low price of $35. Terms, S3OO down. 1 160 acres. This farm lies on pike road, ,R. F. D. and telephone, near school and in good neighborhood in Union township. This farm has Lit) acres of black soil in cultivation and remainder pasture. It has good outlet for drainage with 12- : inch tile on the fam. There is a good five-room htfuse, good barn, pump house, good well, fruit, and well fenced. Will sell this fam on terns of $3,000 down and long [time on remainder. Would accept clear property or smaller tract of land as part payment. Price $65. 80 acres. This is level black land and all in prairie pasture except six acres in grove. It lies _on public highway and in good neighborhood and is fenced and used for pasture. Price $65. Terns .SI,OOO down. 131 acres. This fam lies on K. F. D. and near station. 100 acres is black soil and in cultivation, and remainder in pasture and some timber. It lies on dredge ditch that gives drainage to the farm. There is a good six-room house, large barn, chicken house, well house and good well and some hog fencing. Owner will sell on terns of $2,500 down and easy terns on remainder. Would also consider clear property or smaller tract of land as part payment. Price $65. , . . . 160 acres. On. pike road joining station and school. Is all level black soil with good outlet for drainage. 80 acres is in cultivation and 80 acres in pasture. There is some timber in the pasture but well set to grass. Will sell on terms of $1,500 down. Price $55. 100 acres. This fam lies on public road, R. F. D., telephone line and mile from station. It is all black prairie land in cultivation and pasture except three acres in timber. It lies on dredge ditch which gives good drainage. There is now 10 acres in wheat. There is good four-room two-story house, good well, silo, and small outbuildings. Price SBS. Will sell (on terms of $1,500 down. Would {consider clear property, smaller tract of land or western land as/ part payment, x I 160 acres. Well located and all black prairie land in cultivation or blue grass pasture except 25 acres In timber. There is now wheat and oats on the fam and will be lots in corn this year. Price $65. Terms $2,000 down. i 80 acres. This is a splendid fam in good neighborhood in Barkley township. It is all good soil , well tiled, well fenced, six-room house, arge barn, windmill and numerous other buildings all in splendid condition. Price $137.50 per acre. Terms $4,000 down. 240 acres. This is a fine tract oi land on main road in good neighborhood. It is all black prairie land and is wheat, oats, corn and blue grass land, and all of which crops are grown on the land, excepting about 35 acres that is in timber. There are no buildings on this land. Owner will sell at the low price of $65. Terms $3,000 down. Would consider some in clear property or smaller tract of land. 8Q acres in Barkley township. This is all good soil and good clay subsoil, in good neighborhood. There is a fair set of improvements and good well and fruit. Price $lO5. , 100 acres. This fam is well located and has dredge ditch on line '•of fam that gives good drainage. It is all black land in cultivation except eight acres in timber, which

Large List of Properties Sale. List Your Farms or Property With Us. $ Geo. F. Meyers

TWO DEATHS AT HOSPITAL. Grandmother Robinson, who has i been in the hospital since February 25, passed away this Thursday morning at 5 o’clock. 1 Of late she seemed to be improving but Wednesday she became much worse. Her funeral will be held at McCoysburg and interment will be in the Osborne cemetery. the time depends upon the arrival ot ■ rel Mrs. eS john Eilts, whose accident is reported elsewhere in this paper, grew much worse during the night and died at about the same time as Mrs. Robinson. . Bom, to Mr. and Mrs Elmer Phegley, a daughter, June 26th. Dr I. M. Washburn went to Chicago on the early morning train. You must see our line and prices to really appreciate how cheaply ■ you can buy good automobHe and bycicle here in Rensselaer. 0. H. McKAYI AND SON. i Attorney A. H. Hopkins went to Hammond this morning. Naval Musician Donald Beam left this morning for New he expects to again sail the Atlantic for France on the good ship Von Sftiben, which has already him on six journeys safely over the briney deep. His wife accompanied him as far as Chicago.

FARMS FOR SALE

lies adjoining the barn and is fenced with hog fence. There is a good five-room house, good barn add numerous other outbuildings, good well and some fruit. Price $75. 1 160 acres in Union township This fam lies on R. F. D., telephone I ine and near, pike road, school and hurch. It is all black land except 20 acres in, pasture and timber, lb has good outlet for drainage. There are splendid improvements, conhietng of pine-room house with porches, cellar and nice shade, large barn and many other outbuildings, windmill and all kinds of fruit. Price $126. Will sell on terms of $5,000 down and long time on remainder. Owner will take part in clear property or mailer farm. 100 acres of timber land on main road in Newton county. Price SSS. .Terns SI,OOO down. Owner would onsider clear property in part or afl. 160 acres of timber land on pike road, fenced and small set of improvements. Price $35. Sell on asy terns or will take part or all n clear property. 160 acres in Jordan township. This fam is all in cultivation except 10 acres in timber. It is well tiled and has dredge ditch for outlet, There is a very nice set of improvements in good condition, consisting of six-room house, summer kitchen, well, windmill and well house, large I barn, double crib and 80 acres 'fenced for hogs. Price $125. Will sell on terms of $5,000 down. Owner will accept clear property or smaller tract of land as part payment. 60 acres in Union township. All black land in cultivation except six acres in timber fenced hog tight and joining barn lot. It lies on public road half mile from pike, mile from school and church and has R. F. D. [and telephone. There is a new set of buildings consisting of a flveroom house with porch, pantry and well, fair sized barn for horses and cows, chicken house and outside [cellar. Price SBS. Owner would consider part clear property. ' 40 acres on pike road, 10 acres n grain and remainder in nice, tall i econd-growth timber. Price $65. .Terns SSOO down and long time on remainder. I 145 acres in Brown county, Ind. Five-room house, large barn, well and two springs. 600 bearing fruit i trees. Will sell at a low price on easy terms or will trade for prop- ' erty. I Modern ten-room house with all conveniences, lots of fruit close in lon three lots. Will exchange for land. . 83 acres. This tract of land is n Wheatfield township on public oad, fenced and has small set of improvements, good well and fruit. There is a school fund loan on this and of $1,500. Owner will sell on very easy terms or will trade for property or stock. Price $45. 140 acres. This farm lies three miles from this city on stone road, fenced with woven wire and cedar [posts. It is well tiled and all good grain land. There is a good set of improvements, silo, windmill ana orchard. Worth $175. For quick sale can be bought for less. Terms $5,000 down and long time on remainder. Possession at once of desired. i 80 acres. All cultivated except ‘six acres in wood hog lot. New ibarn, fair house, fine orchard. Owner will sell on easy terms, or take clear property as part payment. Price $65. I Large two-atory bnck hotel in 'good condition and well rented in good Illinois town. The owner of the hotel will trade it clear for land and will assume or pay difference. Price SIO,OOO.

Private Elmer Daniels is home from Indianapolis. He will remain until Sunday and would like to remain longer and train the young soldier that arrived in his home Wednesday. We carry a complete line of tires, all sizes, Goodrich, Goodyear, Racine and U. S. at the lowest cash prices; also Standard blemished tires at 50 cents profit. Gas 24 cents. Agent for Maxwell and Oakland cars. Open day and night. MAIN GARAGE. Mrs. Rossbacker, son, Carl and daughter, Helen, of Muncie, came Monday evening for a visit with the family of Mr. and Mrs. John "Eger. Mrs. Rossbacker is a sister-in-law of Mrs. Eger’s. Sour Stomach. This is a mild form of indigestion. It is usually brought oss by eating too rapidly or too much, or of food, not suited to your digestive organs. If you will eat slowly, masticate your food thoroughly, eat but little meat and none at all for supper, you will more than likely avoid the sour stomach without taking any medicine whatever. When you have sour stomach take one of Chamberlain’s Tablets to aid digestion. C Advice and castor oil are much alike. Everybody wants to give them and nobody wants to take them. Isn’t it funny how many clever things you can think of to say after you get through with your speech?